Sentence examples for dues I from inspiring English sources

I have paid my dues, I really, really have.

This was a nightmare; there always seemed to be special assessments, dues I hadn't anticipated.

I guess Larry Bird paid some kind of dues I don't know about as a coach".

"To say Mike must pay his dues, I argue he's paying his dues now," said Daniel Fay, a brother who lives in their hometown, Palisades Park, N.J. "A prison sentence is the same as a life sentence".

The sound-alike songs are burdened with trite rhyming couplets ("I paid my dues, I fought my wars/I kept on smiling when they slammed the doors") and turn up almost randomly, in a way discredited long ago.

Maybe all those dues I paid as a graduate student and postdoc were starting to pay off.

A biography is due, I think.

"Largely due, I think, to Andrew Adonis".

Forty minutes before the taxi is due, I jump in the shower.

The funding for public education due I believe directly because of Prop.

The night before it was due I asked if it was finished.